DANIJEL DRAGOJEVIĆ (1934-2024) was born in Vela Luka on the island of Korčula, Croatia. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Croatian poets of 20th Century. An exceptionally reflexive and innovative writer with a pronounced interest in the ontological, Dragojević successfully mixes the mundane with metaphysical. His early influences include Eugenio Montale, Henri Michaux and Gaston Bachelard. The range of his intertextual references expanded subsequently to include subjects as diverse as Presocratic philosophers, medieval Christian mysticism, John Cage and Martin Heidegger. For decades he was the editor of the highly influential feature Poetry Aloud!, broadcasted on Croatian National Radio 3rd Programme. His most famous poetry collections are Turtle and Other Landscapes (1961), In Your Real Body (1964), Storm and Other (1968), The Fourth Beast (1974), Natural History (1974), Figments (1976), The Carbon Age (1981), Observatory (1994), Walking Alongside Railway (1997), Murmur (2005) and Somewhere (2012).

DAMIR ŠODAN is a poet, playwright and translator, born in Split. He has published seven collections of poetry, three books of selected plays as well an anthology of Croatian neorealist poetry and the anthology of contemporary European poetry, Are There Any Poets in Monte Carlo (Croatian PEN, 2022).

Marcella Zanki is an experienced Croatian film directress and also an analogue photographer across the genres of portrait, landscape and contemporary art photography. Her photos and interviews are published in various online and printed magazines like VICE, Vogue.it, Nakid Magazine, Elle Magazine, Rolling Stone, Somewhere Magazine, Hypebae etc. She started to exhibit her art work 10 years ago with 10 solo and 10 group exhibitions mostly in Europe and the UK, but also one solo exhibition in New York. As a directress she is skilled in commercials, documentaries, short films, music videos and currently developing and working on her debut feature documentary and a feature film.